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The Institution of Literature 250 Years of English Studies and Cultural Transfer 30. August - 1. September 2012 Keynote Speakers: Terry Eagleton Konrad Schröder Susan Bassnett Thursday, August 30 Friday, August 31 Saturday, September 1 Registration: 09.00 – 10.15 – 10.30 Opening remarks Carola Surkamp (Göttingen) 10.30 – 11.30 Inventing the Institution Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Rostock): “‘Cultural Imperialism’ and the In- vention of EngLit in Elizabethan England” Anton Kirchhofer (Oldenburg): “Literature and the Institution of the Human” 11.30 – 12.30 Transcultural Perspectives Georgia Christinidis (Berlin): “Cross-cultural Transformations of Bildungsroman-Criticism” Martina Witt-Jauch (Hildesheim): “Miscellany or Masterpiece? – Defining the Discipline of Comparative Literature Through its An- thologies” 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 15.00 Canon Formation Thomas Kullmann (Osnabrück): “Canon Formation in English Liter- ature Studies: A Comparison of Britain and Germany, 1900 – 1930” Anna Auguscik (Oldenburg): “The Institution of Literary Prizes” 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee 16.00 – 17.00 Unveiling John Tompson’s Memorial Plaque Weender Str. 43 17.30 – 18.00 Welcome Addresses Vice President Hiltrud Casper-Hehne & Barbara Schaff (Göttingen) 18.00 – 19.00 Keynote Terry Eagleton (Lancaster): “The Death of Criticism?” 19.00 – 21.00 Reception 09.30 – 10.30 Keynote Konrad Schröder (Augsburg): “‘Hardly has a university had a more distinguished master of languages than Tompson was.’ John Tompson’s personality, his biography, and his significance for ELT and English Studies in Germany” 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee 11.00 – 12.30 Institution Histories Frauke Reitemeier (Göttingen): “Navigation Guides for the Vast Ocean of Literature: Writing and Teaching the History of (English) Literature in 1800” Alexandra Lawrie (Edinburgh): “English Literature and the Univer- sity Extension Movement” Leigh Dale (Wollongong): “Germany in the Antipodes, the Antipo- des in Germany” 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 15.30 Teaching Genre Wolfgang Hallet (Gießen): “The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Ge- neric Change and (Inter-)Disciplinary Challenges” Nikola Mayer (Frankfurt): “Exploring the Cultural Potential of Graph- ic Novels in the EFL Classroom” Annika Kolb (Heidelberg): “Diary Fiction in the EFL Classroom” 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee 16.00 – 17.00 Literature and Teacher Education Katerina Dakoura (Frankfurt): “Experts in the Making? – The Prob- lem of Literary Competence in Future EFL-Teachers’ University Education” Janice Bland (Hildesheim): “Postmodern Fairy Tales: Empower- ment of Teacher Education” 17.00 – 18.30 Workshop Daniel Candel (Alcalá): “Basic is Fundamental: A Thinking Tool for Humanistic Interpretation Based on Scientific ‘Facts’” 19.30 Joint Conference Dinner 09.30 – 10.30 Keynote Susan Bassnett (Warwick): “The Joys and Perils of Poetry Collec- tions” 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee 11.00 – 12.30 Transfer and Translation Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann (Erfurt): “Cultural Transfer and Translation: the Strange Fascination of the World’s Secular Metropolis” Karolin Echarti (Göttingen): “Women Translators in Göttingen at the End of the Eighteenth Century” Laurenz Volkmann (Jena): “Landeskunde and FL Teaching: The History of a Troubled Relationship” 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 15.30 Methodological Challenges Daniel Xerri (Malta): “Teachers’ Beliefs and Literature Teaching: The Case of Poetry” Christine Gardemann (Hamburg): “Literary Texts in the English Language Classroom – English Teachers’ Codes of Practice in Hamburg” Elisabeth Bracker (Hamburg): “Negotiating Literary Texts – a Nexus Between Different Realms of Competence? Examples of a Quali- tative Case Study with Advanced English Learners” 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee 16.00 – 17.30 Globalized English Studies Arjan Shumeli, Manjola Salla, Esmeralda Sotiri, Jolanda Xhemali (Tirana): “The Status of English Language Education in Albania in the Context of Globalization Challenges” Nandana Dutta (Guwahati): “English Studies and the Mediation of Modernity: The Case of North East India” Myles Chilton (Nihon): “Global English and Changing Status of English Literature in the Japanese Academy” 17.30 Closing Remarks For further information and registration, please visit: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/350726.html Welcome Addresses & Keynote Terry Eagleton & Reception Alte Aula / Wilhelmsplatz 1 / 37073 Göttingen Thursday / Friday / Saturday Paulinerkirche / Papendiek 14 / 37073 Göttingen Conference Venues Conference Convenors Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff / Prof. Dr. Carola Surkamp / Johannes Schlegel, M.A. Contact Seminar für Englische Philologie / Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3 / 37073 Göttingen / [email protected] With the generous support of Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht www.v-r.de www.vr-unipress.de The Library of Babel, Homage to Borges II, Charles Matton, 2006. (Mixed media, 84 x 55,5 x 86cm). Photo Credit : Yann Matton / Charles Matton Estate. www.charlesmatton.com
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The Institution of Literature250 Years of English Studies and Cultural
Transfer30. August - 1. September 2012
Keynote Speakers:Terry Eagleton
Konrad SchröderSusan Bassnett
Thursday, August 30 Friday, August 31 Saturday, September 1
Registration: 09.00 –10.15 – 10.30 Opening remarksCarola Surkamp (Göttingen)10.30 – 11.30 Inventing the InstitutionChristian Schmitt-Kilb (Rostock): “‘Cultural Imperialism’ and the In-vention of EngLit in Elizabethan England”Anton Kirchhofer (Oldenburg): “Literature and the Institution of the Human”11.30 – 12.30 Transcultural PerspectivesGeorgia Christinidis (Berlin): “Cross-cultural Transformations of Bildungsroman-Criticism”Martina Witt-Jauch (Hildesheim): “Miscellany or Masterpiece? – Defining the Discipline of Comparative Literature Through its An-thologies”12.30 – 14.00 Lunch14.00 – 15.00 Canon FormationThomas Kullmann (Osnabrück): “Canon Formation in English Liter-ature Studies: A Comparison of Britain and Germany, 1900 – 1930”Anna Auguscik (Oldenburg): “The Institution of Literary Prizes”15.00 – 15.30 Coffee16.00 – 17.00 Unveiling John Tompson’s Memorial Plaque Weender Str. 4317.30 – 18.00 Welcome AddressesVice President Hiltrud Casper-Hehne & Barbara Schaff (Göttingen)18.00 – 19.00 KeynoteTerry Eagleton (Lancaster): “The Death of Criticism?”19.00 – 21.00 Reception
09.30 – 10.30 KeynoteKonrad Schröder (Augsburg): “‘Hardly has a university had a more distinguished master of languages than Tompson was.’ John Tompson’s personality, his biography, and his significance for ELT and English Studies in Germany” 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee11.00 – 12.30 Institution Histories Frauke Reitemeier (Göttingen): “Navigation Guides for the Vast Ocean of Literature: Writing and Teaching the History of (English) Literature in 1800”Alexandra Lawrie (Edinburgh): “English Literature and the Univer-sity Extension Movement”Leigh Dale (Wollongong): “Germany in the Antipodes, the Antipo-des in Germany”12.30 – 14.00 Lunch14.00 – 15.30 Teaching GenreWolfgang Hallet (Gießen): “The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Ge-neric Change and (Inter-)Disciplinary Challenges”Nikola Mayer (Frankfurt): “Exploring the Cultural Potential of Graph-ic Novels in the EFL Classroom”Annika Kolb (Heidelberg): “Diary Fiction in the EFL Classroom”15.30 – 16.00 Coffee16.00 – 17.00 Literature and Teacher EducationKaterina Dakoura (Frankfurt): “Experts in the Making? – The Prob-lem of Literary Competence in Future EFL-Teachers’ University Education”Janice Bland (Hildesheim): “Postmodern Fairy Tales: Empower-ment of Teacher Education”17.00 – 18.30 WorkshopDaniel Candel (Alcalá): “Basic is Fundamental: A Thinking Tool for Humanistic Interpretation Based on Scientific ‘Facts’”19.30 Joint Conference Dinner
09.30 – 10.30 KeynoteSusan Bassnett (Warwick): “The Joys and Perils of Poetry Collec-tions” 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee11.00 – 12.30 Transfer and TranslationFritz-Wilhelm Neumann (Erfurt): “Cultural Transfer and Translation: the Strange Fascination of the World’s Secular Metropolis”Karolin Echarti (Göttingen): “Women Translators in Göttingen at the End of the Eighteenth Century”Laurenz Volkmann (Jena): “Landeskunde and FL Teaching: The History of a Troubled Relationship”12.30 – 14.00 Lunch14.00 – 15.30 Methodological ChallengesDaniel Xerri (Malta): “Teachers’ Beliefs and Literature Teaching: The Case of Poetry”Christine Gardemann (Hamburg): “Literary Texts in the English Language Classroom – English Teachers’ Codes of Practice in Hamburg”Elisabeth Bracker (Hamburg): “Negotiating Literary Texts – a Nexus Between Different Realms of Competence? Examples of a Quali-tative Case Study with Advanced English Learners”15.30 – 16.00 Coffee16.00 – 17.30 Globalized English StudiesArjan Shumeli, Manjola Salla, Esmeralda Sotiri, Jolanda Xhemali (Tirana): “The Status of English Language Education in Albania in the Context of Globalization Challenges”Nandana Dutta (Guwahati): “English Studies and the Mediation of Modernity: The Case of North East India”Myles Chilton (Nihon): “Global English and Changing Status of English Literature in the Japanese Academy”17.30 Closing Remarks
For further information and registration, please visit: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/350726.html
Welcome Addresses & Keynote Terry Eagleton & ReceptionAlte Aula / Wilhelmsplatz 1 / 37073 GöttingenThursday / Friday / SaturdayPaulinerkirche / Papendiek 14 / 37073 Göttingen
Conference Venues
Conference Convenors Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff / Prof. Dr. Carola Surkamp / Johannes Schlegel, M.A.Contact Seminar für Englische Philologie / Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3 / 37073 Göttingen / [email protected]
With the generous support of
Vandenhoeck & Ruprechtwww.v-r.de
www.vr-unipress.de
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